Word: speeding
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...outcome is a two-track society that leaves millions of poorly qualified unemployed standing in a cloud of dust while those in demand speed past. And for employers, these are especially demanding times. "Businesses have to understand what many employees already know--that in a dynamic economy and labor market, employees have the ball," says Mercedes Saddier-Chetochine, director of research and development for the Association for the Employment of Managers in Paris, an employment-consulting agency. Small business employers like Jean Lathouwers, president of software producer LSA Delta in eastern Belgium, are learning that lesson painfully. "We have...
...sponsors, Horace L. Hunley, for whom it was named. It was nicknamed the "Peripatetic Coffin," a fitting name, as it was only 4 ft. wide and just over 4 ft. high, crewmen had to sit hunched single file, each operating a crank attached to the propeller. Top speed was 4 knots. The captain navigated by peering out fist-size portholes in the forward conning tower. The Hunley had air for 2 1/2 hours, though it rarely stayed down for more than 25 minutes. Says project historian Mark Ragan: "They would surface when their candle went...
...parade) board up their buildings, leave their doormen at the barricades, and go off to the Hamptons for the weekend. Does not an aspect of gleeful class hatred and defiance throb in the Puerto Rican music, and flap tautly in the Puerto Rican flags on cars that speed down Park and Lex and Second, horns blaring, with half a dozen revolutionaries hanging out the windows, as if they had just occupied the capital...
...copyright-infringement suit against Napster, sales at stores within a mile of Wired magazine's "Top 40 Wired Colleges" - and those near colleges that have had problems with Napster-induced network overloading - are down 13 percent. The numbers suggest that wherever you put young music lovers together with high-speed Internet access, music sales will suffer...
...WARP SPEED That Einstein guy--pretty smart, right? Here's a puzzle for him. Last week two independent groups of researchers, one in the U.S. and one in Italy,each claimed to have found a way to make light travel faster than its regular cruising speed of 186,000 m.p.s. According to the special theory of relativity, that's verboten; the velocity of light is supposed to be the cosmic speed limit, which nothing can exceed. Nevertheless, a physicist, Lijun Wang of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., says he revved up a beam of light as much...